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I would hope that someone invents a more robust cryptography protocol in the next 37 years.
by devmor 3y ago
I would hope that someone invents a more robust cryptography protocol in the next 37 years.
- wongarsu 3y agoA bit less, since you have to worry about an attacker storing anything you do now for future attacks. But if you only want any given secret to stay save for 20 years, you can still use 4096 bit RSA for another 17 years. Which sounds like a good tradeoff: enough of time for better algorithms to get established, but little risk of a breach you will care about.
- capableweb 3y agoIsn't RSA from like the 80s? That would already make it ~40 years old.
- woodruffw 3y agoBeing pedantic: RSA is a cryptosystem, not a protocol, and the parameters that were used in 1980s RSA encryption look nothing like the parameters used in today's RSA (in part because they're much larger now, but also in part because we now know about all the weird things that happen when you choose non-standard exponents, primes that are too close to each other, etc.). RSA is also not typically described as robust, for those reasons.